Bill Title: Enacts the "school bus camera safety act" to authorize the installation and use of photo monitoring devices on school buses to detect and record vehicles illegally passing or overtaking a school bus; provides for owner liability of a motor vehicle detected by a camera to have illegally passed or overtaken a school bus; provides that liability shall be a civil fine equal to the traffic infraction fine imposed therefor; authorizes school districts to receive state aid for the purchase of such cameras; includes within the class A misdemeanor of assault in the third degree, the causation of physical injury to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus; includes within the class E felony of criminally negligent homicide, the causation of death to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-09 - PRINT NUMBER 5028A [S05028 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Contact	Phone	District	Sponsorship	State Profile	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Catharine Young [R]	Primary	Inactive	Inactive	SD-057	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tony Avella [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-011	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Philip Boyle [R]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-004	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator George Latimer [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-037	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kathleen Marchione [R]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-043	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Nozzolio [R]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-054	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Michael Ranzenhofer [R]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-061	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Seward [R]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-051	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk [D]	Cosponsor	Inactive	Inactive	SD-046	Sponsored Bills	Inactive	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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